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6.
COMMON FEATURES
NATIONALIST ACTORS:
• Variable significance of three actors:
–Metropolitan power encounters very little
opposition (integrationist nationalism)
–Regional centre the major victor, but two
other actors relevant (colonial nationalism)
–Regional periphery the victor, but two other
actors relevant (separatist nationalism)
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9.
COMMON FEATURES
NATIONALIST PROGRAMME:
• Nation as an entity whose distinctiveness is to
be preserved, and whose mission to humanity
is to be promoted
• Nation as a community with a shared past,
perhaps with a common descent and racial
background, and with a homeland of its own
• Political ambition to secure the unity of the
nation in relation to potentially disruptive
forces within its own borders, and to establish
its independence in relation to external rivals.
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15.
GROWTH OF NATIONALISM
ETHNIC v. CIVIC NATIONS?
• “Ethnic” nation: Herder, Fichte; nation an
entity in which membership is inherited, e.g.
blood, language
• “Civic” nation: Rousseau, Renan; nation an
entity in which membership is voluntary,
“daily plebiscite”
• Can we separate the two that clearly? Could
we have elements of each type in all national
ideologies? Are there regional variations?
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